Posture (on side, bottom ear resting on bottom arm biceps with that hand sticking straight up over the top of the head, other arm tight)


Drill to knees from bottom half or bottom side:
- Scissor legs with top leg going in front of you (where you can see it) and bottom knee coming up
- Drive up with bottom leg foot to get to knees, pulling yourself up, and trying to come to face O
- Bring knees in tight to turtle position

From turtle
- Defence: If O spins around through North-South to other side, or is on your back when you have the above posture, use the scissor technique to get to turtle and then drive opposite leg and opposite arm to the mat to turn into O and recover the same posture on the other side, again facing them
- Defence: If O spins around while you are turtled, drop to your far hip away from them while extending the leg that will be the top leg as you're dropping to catch them in guard. This seems to be a timing thing - might only catch half guard, but if you time it right, you can catch closed guard.
- Attack: If you are on O's back when they have this posture and you can get a harness grip, fall to your far side to pull them up, get your bottom hook in, then fall back so they're in the same position and get your top hook in. If they block the top hook, just cross your ankles
- Attack: If you're on top and O starts to scissor legs to get to turtle, get your head-side leg through to get a hook as soon as they start to go to their knees, thereby creating space, and follow above procedure to get both hooks in

Block the crossface

Rear naked the arms for the arm triangle

Half guard with double underhooks but too tight:
Knees to chest, then swing back and forth to create space

pimp arm strong, stretch their foot away from them, switch to conventional half guard, butterfly hook in, drive everything they have above your head

from stomp, try butterfly sweep
if they base, dive under for relaxed electric chair, circle third arm hand towards head, lift them towards your head, roll to back and sit straight up, drive into them to sweep or pass

failed hip bump, when they drive into you with an arm, trap that arm and swinging hip arm bar or pit stop

if they're tight, put your forearm in their neck and grab their opposite trap, then pull into you with your hand and lift the elbow, forcing them back - hip bump, or drive straight back


hip bump, drive hard to make them base out, set up triangle

shin to shin guard

Your shin in front of their shin
deep hook with that arm behind the knee
put your other leg through their legs
fall to your shoulder towards their other ankle
monkey grip their ankle
fall to your back, lifting your leg and pulling in with your elbow
get to knees, staying tight, taking them down

shin to shin, grab their opposite hand, and put your free foot to the inside of their free knee
fall back to back as you lift with shin/elbow, pushing away with foot and taking their base away by keeping the wrist grip

Shin to shin, elbow deep behind knee, grab far side wrist with your free hand, pass to elbow-deep hand, put free foot to other knee, sweep


If those fail, release shin to shin and scoop their ankle with your other leg, the one that is between their legs
Scoop their ankle with your foot like you ar standing in base, lifting your scooping foot rather than driving forward
take it easy - it's the ankle control and the shoulder pressure above their knee that creates a knee bar and makes them go down


sit to butterfly with head control
can only sweep from butterfly if you're sitting up
with overwrap, grab other elbow with your free hand, using thumb, and tuck that elbow to your side (or grab their wrist and punch it into their hips)
drop other foot and lift to butterfly sweep

triangle defence
posture up, get your forearm tight across their hip, drive into them
on the side that they want to third arm, walk that way, keeping your head over their head, not giving them the sweep by putting your head too far
put your other hand on the opposite side of their neck (wide; you're using this to base) and step over, then sit back and extend your back to break the triangle

early on, posture up but keep hips low, grabbing the overhooked knee and pulling down, then "check your coat pocket", drive elbow back across, and double overhook their legs for leah pass (remember to drive into them)

Safe pass:
- Head on chest
- Limit ROM of arms
- Stand up, pressuring down on arms
- Move leg as far into butt as possible
- Sit back, not forward
- Cross over to pass
- If guard is tight, push down on hipbones

Standing pass:
- Grab one hand and pin to ab
- Pass to other hand
- Stand up ALL THE WAY
- Step back in a circle and push down on O's knees
- If they underhook inside the leg to defend, rotate knee in and posture WAY back, pushing hips forward to pass

Lumberjack defenses:
- Kick forward to free your ankle and step back
- If they get your ankle, push hips forward and sit on them
- If you get swept, squeeze knees together

Fantastic Pant Mount Escape
With O in mount
- Get their hands to the mat
- Get your elbows to the mat and your hands to their hips
- Bridge off to side (instead of up and back for Fantastic Pants) and push their hips away
- Get one butterfly hook in
- Wrap your other (inside) leg around the outside of their leg and put your foot on their hip
- Swim your arm on the non-butterfly side under their foot and in a big sweeping circle, putting their leg/foot on your shoulder
- Push into them with your feet and lift their leg to sweep them
- Put weight on them and walk around their body, then switch hips and shoulders to pass to side control

Armbar-from-guard escape
- Swim other arm under trapped arm; trapped arm's hand grabs your opposite biceps, and opposite arm grabs O's pants
- Push into them to stack them, stepping one knee by their head and the other foot under their butt to block their butt with that knee
- Sprawl onto them and keep weight on their butt, keeping them stacked
- In short, jerky motions, pull trapped arm free
- Swim other arm around front of their legs and grab their opposite shoulder
- Walk around to that side, keeping your weight sprawled on them, until you pass

From closed guard:
- Break O's posture and get overwrap on one arm, grabbing back of neck with other hand
- Hip out to side with overwrap
- Elbow to knee on other side; slide past O's arm and pin their biceps against your shin, grabbing the back of their triceps
- Extend back, sliding grabbing hand down to their wrist
- Either push their hand out of the way and pull that leg inside to set up triangle, or push your shin into their arm and shoot past it, tucking their hand into their chest and setting up triangle
- Cross feet and raise hips, pulling their trapped arm across your body
- Grab their head with both hands and spin to look in their ear, clamping leg across back of their neck
- Re-clamp to take away space
- Tuck back of other leg over your shin to lock in triangle
- Squeeze knees together, flex knees, pull down on back of their head, raise hips for tap

If you are on top of the turtle with both hooks in, and O is defending the choke "so you can't get that shit":

- Leave left hook in and step the R foot back around that side of the hip, sinking the L hook very deep inside their L leg.
- Reach over and grab R ankle with both hands
- Roll backwards and secure lockdown
- Keep their R foot's toes in your hand; this keeps O from rolling back

To get the calf crank, grab the toes of the locked-down R foot with R hand and crush

Can also do Electric Chair and Banana Split

But, fuck, it's 10th Planet, so why not go for the Twister?

- Grab their R wrist with your R hand, thumb on the elbow side
- Dig your L elbow into their armpit and get the same grip with L hand
- "like you hold a baseball bat" (only a useful description if you know how to hold a baseball bat, which I do not)
- still holding with both hands, move their right arm behind your neck, holding onto their wrist with your R hand.
- Using your lockdown, rock them into you and space to do the nest move
- Using your R hand reach behind the neck above the ear
- Reach around the front of the head with an s-grip.

Tidbits:
- Scarf hold can be a limiting position in jiu-jitsu. Use it to get good position for side control, or to push hips through when passing, but don't hang out in it.
- Little movements add up to big movements.
- "Wet towel"
- Push hips forward during passing to break their control, including things like quarter guard
- Slither, not big movements.
- Use minimal effort.
- Don't dive or jump. Stay as tight as possible.

Being in guard
- Use "active tension" to judge O's movements - push back into them gently, giving you a sense of what they are doing, like when they open.
- O should eventually try something, and to do that, they will have to open their guard.
- Once they open, explode back and scramble to feet. You can pass standing.

Knee-in-butt opening guard
- Keep O's hips pinned to mat the whole time
- Get your knee in middle of O's butt, not on the side. Big, big difference here. Putting it in the ass crack opens your hips and creates more space between their legs and your far hip for you to break open
- Keep your butt low to give yourself a wider base.
- Think about opening your hip and keeping your other knee on the mat, creating a 90 degree angle between your legs. Being on the knees might be more stable than basing with the opposite foot, but should experiment with both.
- Pass over with same side leg rather than crossing over the other leg. Pin their opposite hip to the mat with your hand, and pin the knee to the mat, hard, on the leg you are passing. Keep your elbows in to your body and slightly bent to keep them from breaking you at the elbow.
- Staple gun O's leg with your toes on the back of their leg. Drop your chest to theirs, pinning their shoulders to the mat. Only after you drop the chest should you release the hand on the opposite hip. Can dive for the underhook now.
- If they try to scoot around to take your knee out of their butt, block the knee on the side they're scooting to, and open it to pass that side

Mountain-not-spear opening guard
- Must be done quickly to keep from getting swept
- Remember the solo drill: base on hands and knees; step up R, step up L, step L inside, sit back. Repeat on other side. Do for reps.
- Lean more forward and push back through heels
- If they try to sweep you, knock-knee your knees into their butt to block them
- Standing passes can be risky if not executed well or quickly; if you feel you're at risk, sit down and try again

Passing
- Prefers to pass standing after O has opened guard
- Remember to drop your chest to their chest. As long as you're blocking the hip on the far side, you don't need to dive for underhook; you can get it after you get your chest to theirs.
- Best to control O's knees rather than feet - gives you more leverage
- If they catch you on the pass in quarter guard, push hips forward, maybe even temporarily through scarf hold, to get to side. Pushing your hips moves past them and removes their control
- Don't jump for it. Be fast but deliberate.
- If pushing both knees to the same side:
- Should step beside their hip and drop chest immediately. Fight to take underhook.
- Step out with far foot then right in with near foot. Near foot should go as deep as possible - the deeper it is towards their ribs, the less likely they will be able to stop your pass
- To block this pass, try to get your near knee into the shin that's beside your hip, and fold upper body away the same way we did with side control.
- Don't have to push both knees together to same side. Can also push one knee down (and one knee towards them, if required) and staple gun pass over the down side.
- Don't jump for it. If you jump, you give them space to catch you or re-guard. Step deliberately.
- For staple gun, don't have to step foot to their inner thigh/hamstring; as long as toes are on the mat on the back of their leg, and knee goes over, this should be fine. This means that your toes can be many inches from the back of their leg.
- Staple gun close to their hip, not their knee. This gives you more control over their hips, and they have less room to move.
- When you go over, aim your staple gun knee to the point on the mat right beside their hip

Mount control (from top)
- The defense to elbow escape is to pull up on elbow. If O does this, use that momentum to try to switch to the other side and elbow escape from there.
- To climb guard higher, scoop under their elbows and try to raise their elbows above their head, then slide your knees towards their armpits.
- Any time their elbows move away from their body, the armbar is there.
- If they bridge, they're giving you space. Move off to side - more submissions from there.

Being mounted (from bottom)
- Relax. They already have the points.
- Take your time and escape deliberately. This is a risky position for you, and if you flail around, they have many submissions available to them.
- Keep elbows tight to side.

Elbow escape
- Slither, not big movements.
- The higher their guard is, the more you have to wiggle up to get them lower towards your hips.Take your time to do this right.
- Only need one elbow in to do an elbow escape. Don't need both. But you should switch back and forth if they are defending.
- Should be t-rex'ed with elbows as tight to side as possible.
- Get elbow to mat and tight to your side. Shouldn't pry their knee away yet; if you do that, they will start fighting your escape. Best to get the elbow to the mat and squeeze it as tight to your side as possible.
- Once elbow is on mat, get on the side of your hip. Only now should you pry them away.
- Defense to elbow escape is to pull up on elbow. If O does this, use that momentum to try to switch to the other side and elbow escape from there.

Notes:
- Don't give up.
- Always fight for underhooks.
- Be persistent with little movements; they add up to big movements
- Use feet to scoot yourself around. Better than basing out with hands
- Stay close to opponent in most cases. Pay close attention to what they are doing, using your contact with them to sense their movement and weight distribution.
- Use push/pull to surprise O and take them off balance. Be aware of their position and weight distribution at all times. The minute it's off, GO.

Butterfly sweep:
- Stick forehead into O's neck ("that's really annoying")
- "Fall to side" isn't always the way to go. Better to judge O's movement and weight distribution and take them in the right direction.
- Important to judge distance between butt and feet. For the standard sweep, you want them close.
- Feet are always active, even when on mat. Use push-off with feet to generate force
- Ensure that you're overhooking in the right place. Should be just above their elbow, with your elbow squeezed hard and your hand in a fist held tight to your chest. If you have to re-adjust to keep them from basing with that hand, do it.
- Use your feet to scoot your butt around

Failed butterfly sweep options:
- If O pulls back to resist sweep, tuck bottom (non-hooked) foot under and let her pull you up. Drive hips forward as far as possible, like a Rickson situp. At the same time you do this, drop the overhook hand, tap (block) that side's knee, and take her over
- Alternative 2, works well if you're strong and have double underhooks: Squeeze hard and lift up, then drive forward or to side to sweep. Again, judge where her weight is to determine which direction to drive, and remember that going straight back can mess up ankles and/or knees.
- Alternative 3: If it fails to one side, turn hips to other side (underhooked arm) and sweep to that side. They'll base with that hand. Make a fist, drop your underhooked arm's elbow to the mat. Wait for them to base, then swing it up, hard, along the mat, towards your head.
- If they drive into you, you can regain butterfly by kicking your legs straight out and use it to pull you back. Practice the movement with no opponent. Lie on back, kick legs out, and use the knee flexion to give you force to crunch up. It's this same movement with an opponent. Once you do this (sort of like Fantastic Pants, really), scoot your butt closer and try again. I did this three times in a row while she was resisting before i got the sweep.

Half butterfly:
- This is really half guard. Use the hook to lift them up and get your other leg out, or block the non-hooked hip and pull your leg under like an elbow escape. It's not a good position, so if you can't pull them into full guard, switch back to half and get on your side.

Half guard:
- Always fight for underhooks. Once you get it, lock it in so they can't get it back, especially the far side underhook.
- Don't let them flatten you out. If they do, use little movements to get onto your side. Last resort is Lockdown.
- Stay on side and fight for underhooks. Once you have underhooks, you can scoot out along the bottom like you would for Old School, Electric Chair, Half and Half, or any of the other regular sweeps.
- The sweeps mentioned above don't work well on people who are used to them. Instead, take near leg and do the equivalent of a single leg takedown.

From standing
- Don't jump guard like the Gracie Barra people. You're trusting your opponent (and the mat, and the surface below the mat) to not drop you or knock you out.
- One hand on neck and one on wrist; pull them down and sit to butterfly. If they don't deduct points in no gi, you'll at least be neutral and they will have to pass your guard. Go for sweep right away if possible - you should catch them off balance. If they do deduct points, you should at least be back to neutral with points for the sweep.

"keep moving"

Escaping side control: don't need to get knee all the way through. Get on your side facing them. If you can get your knee blocking their closest hip, you can fold out by extending your back and moving away from them. This creates oodles of space and will allow you to re-guard. Very important to lift up on elbow ("like a Muay Thai elbow") after grabbing as close to their neck as possible. Remember to lift the elbow. Remember to lift the elbow.

To defend scarf hold, get your bottom elbow to the mat. Lots of little movements to get there. Pry neck away and add the other hand pushing to make it stronger. Switch hips, step over, and try to hook their leg with your opposite foot.

To dominate side control, put your chest on the closest half of their chest and think about pushing in diagonally to the centre line on their back.

Breaking posture: equal parts pulling knees in and doing a sit-up, but don't forget to pull knees in; s-grip behind neck

Make room for Mission Control by switching hips - the side you switch your hips out to is the leg that goes to Mission Control

If hand goes to the mat, go to New York

To get Chill Dog from New York, let go of ankle hand while continuing to hug the knee hard; drive elbow down hard by the side of the neck to secure Chill Dog

Kung Fu Move - rotate hand around foot to get foot in place; kick out to jiu-claw

To secure omoplata, reach over back and under opposite armpit with near hand, and reach in front of o's face with far hand. Secure gable grip and put your head on opposite side of their head

For Croc: from New York, switch hips and go flat on back. Drop other knee to mat and swing leg wide and around to bring their arm in. Hook foot under Mission Control foot - important that the foot on the side of the arm you are trying to armbar is the foot that's on the bottom. Squeeze knees together and slowly pull Mission Control arm out. Lift butt off of floor, squeeze hips, and take armbar.

From Chill Dog, switch hips and go flat on back. Drop other knee to mat and swing leg wide and around to bring their arm in. Hook other foot around Chill Dog foot. For Invisible Collar, squeeze knees together hard and drive forearm into their clavicle

Invisible Croc: same as regular Croc but from the Invisible Collar position. Don't forget that the foot that is on the bottom is the one on the side of the arm you are trying to armbar.

With both Crocs, you can switch back and forth between arms for armbars. Just remember that the bottom foot should be the foot on the side of the arm you are going for.

Whip up to half and half
Gable grip around o's waist just above hips - very important to have it very low
Release lower leg and swing it back towards side control position, "twistback"ing their other foot with your top foot/leg to lift it out of the way so your bottom leg can pass under.
Get to knees and drive O forward, switching hips to move to side control

Whip up to elbow to get to dogfight
dogfight is you on one knee (the one around their leg) with your knee facing their opposite leg and that foot pointed out, and the other leg posted up and far forward. Explode to this position, remembering to keep their near leg hooked behind your knee.
Can continue half and half sweep from here unless O has a very strong whizzer

Powder keg
From dogfight, post up on far hand and wrap underhook hand over their opposite trap
Jump inside leg around their waist and throw outside leg under between their neck and opposite shoulder to set up triangle
Squeeze knees together and gable grip behind their head to get the choke

To defend triangle, grab gable grip under their butts

If they defend the triangle by doing that, go for teepee - grab behind their neck and behind your legs with an s-grip and push them away with your hips

Kimura from side control
- Since you have regular head and arm, underhook their opposite arm and pull them into you
- Step around their head while pulling their elbow tight to your chest
- Make sure O is on her side; squeeze knees together, and switch underhook arm by diving other arm through
- Get five-on-five grip to secure kimura

Defending the kimura from that position
- Get your back to the mat
- Dive your free arm through the inside of their other arm and grab it, pulling it into you to secure it
- Spin around, tucking your knee across their gut and looping foot over their face for the armbar on the side you just grabbed (I think this one needs a video to explain it)

- If O is postured up and has her hands on your hips, two-on-one their R sleeve and rip it towards you. Important to rip it hard and suddenly, and to make them extend it fully
- Release L hand and pull their arm behind your neck with your R hand
- dive your L hand under their arm from outside to secure overwrap; squeeze L elbow to side as tightly as possible
- With R hand, grab O's L lapel, allowing you to position and take slack out for next move
- With L (overwrapped) hand, sink a lapel grip as deeply as possible on O's L lapel side
- Put your R hand on their R shoulder (might have to push R arm through and drag it back to get the position) and grab their gi shoulder
- Push R elbow into their throat for a choke

If O defends by pushing your R elbow down with their L hand:
- Hip out to L side and secure L butterfly hook
- Dive R hand inside their arm and scoop their L elbow, pulling it towards you and hipping back to secure R butterfly hook
- With L overwrap tight to your side and R hand scooping their L elbow, twist them to the left by switching hips hard to left and scooping them with R butterfly hook. Should take mount or side.

Transition from side to scarf hold:
- Drop head-side hip to trap and move their elbow
- Slide hip-side knee along their body while pulling up on O's arm with your far arm
- Reach under O's head with your arm and grab your own new head-side (bottom) leg, which should be bent at 90° and as deep as possible

Escapes from scarf hold:
- If their hip-side leg's knee is up, reach around with your far foot and pull them into half guard
-- to defend this, shoot both legs out and "peel" them off with the mat by sliding your shoulders down like a back defense, spinning into them, and taking mount or re-guarding to side
- Bridge away from them to flip them over
-- to defend this, switch hips and move straight to mount while they are bridged

Submissions
- If they grab around your back, slide hip-side hand, palm down, under their elbow, putting your radius under the bone protrusion
- Gable grip your hands and squeeze your elbow tight to your side, extending hip and "chicken wing"-ing to break the grip
- Control their trapped hand with your free hand
- Submission 1: tuck it behind your top knee, flexing knee to lock it in; raise bottom knee and drop top knee for an armbar (I found this didn't work particularly well for me)
- Submission 2: Push their hand down and put your own bottom leg's foot over the hand to trap it, then raise hips for armbar (better chance of finishing this one)
- Submission 3: From submission 2 position, if they defend by pulling their hand in, tuck their hand behind your bottom knee and flex your knee, then extend hips for shoulder lock
- Submission 4: From submission 2 position, if they defend by pulling their hand in all the way to their head, grab that arm with the hand that is controlling their head, and use your free hand to put their arm in place for an arm triangle

Spin-around armbars from side control
- For all armbars, overhook their far arm and grab either your own shoulder (no gi) or your opposite collar (gi) to hold tight
- Make sure to pull them into you to get them on their side
- If possible move to Spider Web-like position and sink armbar by sitting back slowly to give them time to tap

Spin-around armbar 1
- Get overhook and grab opposite collar when O has head-side arm in the proper position to escape side control
- Pull O into you and post up on your foot
- Step to other side of their head with that foot
- Spin around their head, tucking your foot into their armpit and pulling them up into you again
- Leave current head-side leg across their neck, keeping your collar grip on their arm, and sit back for arm bar
- No need to grab their wrist (strong O's can power out) - keep overhook grip on your collar and slide towards their wrist

Spin-around armbar 2
- If O places head-side arm on wrong side of your head, underhook that arm and grab opposite collar
- Pull O into you and post up on your foot
- Step to other side of their head with that foot
- Grab their opposite pantleg (or underhook their leg in no gi)
- Spin around their head, tucking your foot into their armpit and pulling them up into you again
- Leave current head-side leg across their neck into pseudo-Spider Web
- Sit back gently for armbar
- No need to grab their wrist (strong O's can power out) - keep overhook grip on your collar and slide towards their wrist

Kimura #1 from knee on belly
- Overhook O's opposite arm and post up on foot
- Grab O's belt with nearest hand and put knee on belly
- Pull up on belt and push down into belly
- When O reaches up to push knee off of belly, release belt arm and underhook their free arm, releasing the other arm
- Pull O 's arm into you
- Move knee to their face side
- Spin around their head, making sure the foot on the side of their back is a foot and not a knee, and that it is tight
- Pull O's elbow into your chest and posture up
- Grab O's wrist with free hand
- Secure kimura grip, keeping their elbow in your chest and their elbow bent at 90 degrees
- If O grabs belt to defend, rip their arm into internal rotation. This is direction in which their grip is weakest
- Continuing to pull O into you, squeeze knees together and finish kimura

Kimura #2 from side control
- Overhook O's opposite arm and post up on foot by their head
- Move knee to their face side
- Spin around their head, making sure the foot on the side of their back is a foot and not a knee, and that it is tight
- Pull O's elbow into your chest and posture up
- Grab O's wrist with free hand
- Secure kimura grip, keeping their elbow in your chest and their elbow bent at 90 degrees
- If O grabs belt to defend, rip their arm into internal rotation. This is direction in which their grip is weakest
- Continuing to pull O into you, squeeze knees together and finish kimura

Biceps/forearm crush from kimura defense
- If O's defense is too strong and you can't break grip, release overhooked arm and push wrist-side arm all the way through their arm, grabbing your own shoulder
- Shoot free hand to the opposite hip and spin around their head, lowering your hips to the ground
- Push shoulder into O and turn away from them, creating biceps/forearm crush

Hooks low on knees
Knees wide and low to prevent pass
S-grip around lower back
forehead in collarbone

Sweep 1:
Standard butterfly sweep
Switch hips to tuck side into theirs
Overhook opposite arm
Fall back 45 degrees while kicking leg up and pushing bottom foot to get lift

Sweep 2
Similar setup, but bottom (non-butterfly-hooked foot) comes under other knee to give leverage to push to side
push off 90 degrees to take side control

Sweep 3:
If they pummel one arm in, short arm drag it and grab their opposite lat with other hand
Switch butterfly hook - move the close hook on arm drag side to outside of their leg
Move other butterfly hook to the opposite inside knee
Fall straight back and kick up, sweeping them to side control at the back

Taught to me by Jennifer Weintz, GB Vancouver purple belt

- If O grabs your pants legs to pass your open guard, don't grab their lapel - brings them into you and keeps them tight
- Choose a side and grab one of their gi sleeves with both hands
- Pull that sleeve into you and kick your foot away as hard as possible to free one foot
- Put the trapped foot on the ground by their closest foot
- Put your other foot on their same side hip
- Keeping the sleeve grip, push their hip away with your foot as you swing the other foot across their base to sweep their other leg
- Release the gi sleeve and follow them up - keeping the sleeve allows them to resist

- "Panther fist" starting at the corner of their jaw to get under their tucked chin

From over/under harness grip:
- With "over" hand, panther fist and grab O's opposite gi lapel as deep as possible past the neck
- With "under" hand, grab O's opposite gi lapel. Doesn't have to be deep; you just want to take the slack
- Fall to "over" side and bring O with you
- Tighten collars by pulling and arching your back away from O

Rear naked choke
- With "over" hand, panther fist and reach all the way under, grabbing O's opposite shoulder
- You might have to pull up on their forehead (or under the nose) with the opposite arm to create space, but panther fist should help
- Make sure choke is sunk as deeply as possible: their windpipe in the crook of your elbow
- Switch choking arm's hand to your shoulder and slide hand down to the biceps
- (Alaina's modification) Rather than putting other hand on the back of their head, move it to the back of their neck and scissor

Choke defenses
Principles: You want to defend by doing the opposite of what they want to do, so: roll them to the "under" side; grab their forearm and their choking triceps and pull down; turn your chin into their elbow

Defense 1
- This will be uncomfortable, but after you do all of the things described in principles above, push their choking arm up to your forehead
- Bridge backwards hard, pushing your trapped shoulder under their arm and getting your head and non-choked shoulder to the mat on the opposite side of their body
- Turn into their guard

Defense 2
- This will be uncomfortable, but after you do all of the things described in principles above, push their choking arm up to your forehead
- Switch your triceps grip to their choking side sleeve, and shoot your other arm beside your own elbow
- Turn into their guard

variation on arm triangle

While in O's side control:

- Keep head-side (top) arm outside of O's head (i.e., not inside against their throat as normal)
- Shoot hip-side (bottom) arm through O's covering to opposite side
- Spin under O through north/south, moving top arm to other side of O's head and shooting bottom arm up and over
- Bottom arm goes over back of O's neck and slides under and across O's body again
- Grab opposite (top) bicep with bottom hand
- Squeeze elbows together and apply pressure, place top hand on back of own neck if necessary, or on O's back; sprawl to apply more pressure

Counter to Brabo choke via Doris:

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Great Brabo choke instructional series:
Brabo Choke Instructional 1
Brabo Choke Instructional 2
Brabo Choke Instructional 3
Brabo Choke Instructional 4
Brabo Choke Instructional 5